Gates cash ‘vote of confidence’ for diamond open access initiative
The Open Journals Collective has received a $711,900 grant from the Gates Foundation to support diamond open access publishing. This funding aims to help the non-profit model scale its operations and provide free access to academic research.
Why it matters
Signals a growing institutional shift toward non-profit, open-access models in academic publishing, challenging traditional for-profit journal structures.
Open Journals Collective receives over £500,000 to accelerate shift towards alternative scholarly publishing
A Gates Foundation grant of over 500,000 to an initiative for advancing diamond open access is a "vote of confidence" in alternative publishing models, its executive director has said.
The Open Journals Collective launched in January with the aim of raising collective investment for a transition to academic-led, non-profit diamond open access - the scholarly publishing model where research is free for both authors and readers, with journals operating outside traditional, for-profit publishers.
Based in the UK, the OJC has 50 library members across the UK, US and Europe, whose investments support 278 journals and the development of open publishing infrastructure.
Earlier this month, the OJC announced a two-year grant from the Gates Foundation worth $711,900 to "scale its operations in 2027 and 2028".
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